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January 6, 2003
Hi Everyone and Happy New Year!
Josh is now 19 months old and is changing every day! He is talking up a storm! I can't even list all the words he is saying now, but he is really communicating better with me.
The other day, when I picked him up from daycare, he came running over to me and was trying to tell me something. He kept saying "Bite" "Bite" and putting his fingers in his mouth, then he said his version of the name Kaitlyn. All the time he kept putting his fingers in his mouth after each word. I asked the teacher if Josh had bitten Kaitlyn (as we have had an ongoing problem with biting). She told me that he had bitten her, but only because she was putting her fingers in his mouth while he was eating his snack. I was really proud of him for putting the words that he knew together and combining it with his own actions to show me what happened. He has been showing me things more and more if he doesn't have the words and he seems to understand most things that we say to him. If I ask him where his shoes are, he will go get them and bring them to me. If I ask him to open his mouth, he opens it right up and sticks his tongue out. It is exciting to see him communicating and understanding so well.
Another thing that Josh has started doing is giving hugs! He will say "Big Ug" and stretch his arms open to hug eveyone. This, of course, includes our cat and my parents dog. I have to supervise the hugs to the animals because he can squeeze pretty tight at times. It is just the sweetest thing when he comes over to give you a hug! Boy do I love that kid!
Josh has had an exiting last few weeks. Besides the Christmas festivities, we also went to a New Years Eve party at a house up the street from us. We brought a portable crib and some pajamas for Josh so that when he got tired we could put him down and stay at the party, but that didn't really work. Josh loves parties! He was dancing to the music and playing with the other children, not to mention all the toys that the other children had. The best toys are always other children's toys! Anyway, he was on fire until about 10:15 and then got really fussy. He did not want to go to sleep because the party was so much fun, but he was so tired it was making him miserable. DH and I decided just to call it a night and take Josh home, so by 10:30 we were all asleep. Oh well, we brought in the New Year with New York, then went to bed!
My sister and her family will be leaving to go back to Hawaii in 2 days. I am having them and my parents over for dinner at my house tomorrow night for my husband's birthday and then they leave early in the morning Wednesday. Josh has had so much fun with his 2 cousins that we will really miss having them around. It is amazing to me how good they are with Josh and how much they love each other. I am not sure when we will see them again, they don't usually make it out every year, but I am hoping to visit Hawaii in 2004. We have a trip planned to Nicaragua in 2003, so Hawaii will have to wait a year.
I mentioned in my last post that Josh would be going in for his second flu shot last week. He did and everything went fine. I must say that he has been well this winter so far and I am so grateful for that. Last winter he had 3 ear infections, pink eye, RSV and the stomach flu. I begged his pediatrician to advise me on what I could do to keep him well. It really made me feel like I had somehow failed him as a Mother. Josh's pediatrician just kept telling me not to worry that this was normal for a child who just started daycare, that it takes about a year to build up his immune system and he is constantly exposed to germs no matter how clean the day care is. Well, I hate to say this so soon into the season, but so far he appears to have been right. Josh hasn't been home sick yet!
As for me, I am on Cycle #2 Day 21. Wish me luck this cycle!
Thanks for reading!
Janet and Josh
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